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I think that the agreement reached about antisemitism in Berlin is not good and represents a coalescing around the logic of Staatsräson. This is based on a bad conception of antisemitism and accepts many false assumptions of the right-wing press. >

The most important thing is that this doesn't fracture Die Linke. The party should accept a spectrum of opinion on the Middle East in a municipal context, and the new coalition's leadership needs to find ways to enable a broad democratic spectrum on this issue. >

🧶 Here is a threat about the unification of the joint list and its impact on Israeli politics, for beginners:

And if this happens, and the block facing Netanyahu insists on not relying on Arab votes, there will be another election cycle. But if they are willing to negotiate something with the joint list or its components, we could see an alternative government. >

🧶 Here is a threat about the unification of the joint list and its impact on Israeli politics, for beginners:

But the public pressure stemming from the state of emergency of the Palestinian community, both after two years of genocide in Gaza and political repression at home, along with the sharp rise in criminal killings and gang violence, forced Abbas to move toward unity yesterday. >

🧶 Here is a threat about the unification of the joint list and its impact on Israeli politics, for beginners:

The deal was conditioned on progress on the civilian internal front and the Palestinian issue. In the end, Gantz chickened out each time and collapsed the deal, but the JL was there and willing to use its power to make an impact. >

🧶 Here is a threat about the unification of the joint list and its impact on Israeli politics, for beginners:

Balad rejects any collaboration with Zionist parties and opposes the idea that Palestinian parties should participate in a political coalition. Hadash and Ta'al want to use their electoral influence to shape the political landscape, but only under certain conditions. >

🧶 Here is a threat about the unification of the joint list and its impact on Israeli politics, for beginners:

There are four parties on the joint list: Socialist, Jewish-Arab Hadash (my party), Moderate Islamist Ra'am (Mansour Abbas's party), nationalist-liberal Balad (let's assume that Western pro-Palestine protestors would be Balad), and personalist Ta'al (Ahmad Tibi's one-man show). >

🧶 Here is a threat about the unification of the joint list and its impact on Israeli politics, for beginners:

Last night, during a large demonstration by the Palestinian community in Israel in Sakhnin against widespread crime in Arab society and the lack of action from the police and government, the four components of the Joint List signed a tentative agreement to reunite the list. >

Proud of my brilliant, beautiful, and brave wife, Tamar Raphael, who did what she had to do while speaking at the Frankfurt Book Fair and made a statement in support of Palestinian rights. She was later viciously attacked by a digital mob of Israeli fascists, but she’s fine.

🧵 There are good reasons to be a bit happy today, and they go beyond the end of the slaughter in Gaza and the release of many people on both sides. The way this ceasefire was achieved is better than most optimistic scenarios for a ceasefire we could have expected. >

The huge powers of the Palestine solidarity movement that erupted all over the world in the past 2 years must be channeled to a productive pressure campaign against the occupation and apartheid, and build a global front for a Palestinian state, isolating Israel and the US.

🧵 There are good reasons to be a bit happy today, and they go beyond the end of the slaughter in Gaza and the release of many people on both sides. The way this ceasefire was achieved is better than most optimistic scenarios for a ceasefire we could have expected. >

On the other hand, Trump is still very loyal to Netanyahu and to the settler movement, and his recent slight tilt toward the side of the Arab world does not mean he has any sentiments for the Palestinians (nor does his buddies in Saudi and UAE). >

🧵 There are good reasons to be a bit happy today, and they go beyond the end of the slaughter in Gaza and the release of many people on both sides. The way this ceasefire was achieved is better than most optimistic scenarios for a ceasefire we could have expected. >

While the second stage of the Trump plan is an imperialist plan determined to appoint Tony Blaire to watch over Gaza and develop it for investors, when you look at the way the different actors interpret the plan, many insist on Palestinian rule there. >

🧵 There are good reasons to be a bit happy today, and they go beyond the end of the slaughter in Gaza and the release of many people on both sides. The way this ceasefire was achieved is better than most optimistic scenarios for a ceasefire we could have expected. >

A year ago, Alma Itzhaky and I wrote about the right’s post-October-7 vision for Israel - a Jewish Sparta. Today Bibi used the reference of Sparta to describe his vision of dealing with international isolation.